Grr... Swap Images

Spent about an hour working on this one, but to no avail. Not quite sure where I went wrong. The tutorial wasn't the easiest for me to follow, but I've read worse. The technique looks cool (here's an example), and I think I just forgot to do something small. I might try again tomorrow--though this technique is nowhere near standards compliant. Come to think of it, I know I came across a CSS-only, completely standards compliant trick like this the other day. Now I'll have to plow through my del.icio.us links... So, again, no image to post today.

Just testing a theory:

Filters vs. Live Effects

Not a bad tutorial, though nothing mind blowing. The trick about using the magic wand and the brighten filter to adjust select parts of an image is useful (though I often use the burn/dodge tool for this...) No images worth posting.

Sticky Notes

Like these Rapid Fire tutorials over at six things. This one took me about 40 minutes--most of which was spent fighting with the pen tool. Grr... pen tool... edit the existing vector! Don't randomly choose which points you will transform. That little plus sign next to the pen symbol mocks me.

Rapid-Fire Photo Realistic

This one was a bit tricky at times--but very cool advanced shadow technique. Pretty simple to pull off, but allow for a whole range of shadows that you simply couldn't get with the "drop shadow" filter. Total time: 37 minutes. Be aware: you cannot apply the Gaussian blur (part of the shadow technique) until after you convert the edges to paths and adjust them with the pen tool (the blur tool converts the rectangle to a bitmap). Also, I toned done the black gradient corner fill to only 35% (rather than 100%). To take this to the next level, I'd probably want to bend the photo similar to the shadow--but don't have the time!

Golden Seal Tutorial

This one took me about 20 minutes--I probably could have been a bit more careful with the bevel technique. Its a pretty simple technique to execute, and it looks better than the auto bevel feature (I used too small a font size for the technique to work properly.

Twist and Fade

Twist and Fade tutorial on voidix.

Neat technique, really simple to execute (about five minutes beginning to end), but I'm not sure how useful it would be...